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Mar 05 2020

Alignment Healthcare, a vendor of Medicare Advantage plans, raises an additional $135 million in funding.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/03/04/alignment-healthcare-lands-135m-investment-to-grow-medicare-advantage/#7e7a8a221407
Mar 03 2020

K Health, which is aiming to use artificial intelligence to improve telehealth, letters in fundraising, with another $48 million capital raise.

https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/27/k-health-raises-45-million-to-apply-ai-to-telemedicine/
Mar 02 2020

axialHealthcare has raised $16.5 million in new funding.  The company offers pain management solutions for members of health plans and others.

https://www.axialhealthcare.com/oak/
Mar 02 2020

Caravan Health, which helps ACOs with implementation services, has acquired Wellpepper, which offers patient engagement services.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/aco-implementation-program-caravan-health-looks-digital-acquisition-wellpepper
Feb 27 2020

Ribbon Health puts a bow on some additional financing, securing a fresh $10 million for its service of helping patients identify and select patients, as best I can tell.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/26/andreessen-makes-ribbon-health-the-first-investment-from-its-750-million-new-healthcare-fund/
Feb 25 2020

Sharecare has a vision, or is it a hallucination, and acquired Visualize Health.  The former is the ubiquitous digital health engagement platform and the latter helps providers catch gaps in care that are called for by quality measures.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/sharecare-acquires-visualize-health
Feb 25 2020

Health Catalyst, the publicly-held vendor of data warehousing and analytics services for providers, is acquiring Able Health, which automates the calculation of certain quality and other measures, for $27 million.

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/health-catalyst-acquires-able-health-27-million
Feb 25 2020

Carevive, a provider of some kind of an app to help oncology centers provide care plans to patients, raised an undisclosed amount of additional capital.

https://www.carevive.com/carevive-raises-new-financing-round-with-philips-and-debiopharm-to-accelerate-advances-in-cancer-care-delivery/
Feb 25 2020

HealthJoy, which offers a virtual assistant chatbot to help consumers use their health benefits effectively, happily raises $30 million more in capital.

https://medcitynews.com/2020/02/benefits-assistance-startup-healthjoy-raises-30m/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=83838254&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_GcXdWvuzRV0txW7v1M923bWaVAItxlvKD2Lf8zX-_9aNxDANgi6rWMPZsQosHcizCbyB1B1Dj_RUiquq_MvkW_KqmUdOjaoX-H-L276Ykh3FrHgs&_hsmi=83838254&rf=1
Feb 21 2020

Cloudbreak Health, which offers telemedicine with language translations, provides a ray of sunshine for investors, raising $10 million in new financing.

https://www.cloudbreak.us/2020/02/20/cloudbreak-10m-growth-investment/
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